Posted: Jul 02, 2014 12:09 am
Nicko wrote:kennyc wrote:Meh. You guys gotta weird definition of art.
Really? What's your definition?
Marcel Duchamp made the argument in 1917 - by submitting a urinal to a sculpture exhibition - that art is just what artists do. The argument has not, AFAIK, been refuted in any real way.
This doesn't mean you have to like a given artwork. You don't have to even justify not liking something; if you don't like it, you don't like it.
It doesn't mean that one cannot critcise a particular artwork on particular grounds. This does require a bit of justification, however.
You have no grounds whatsoever to say that an artwork is "not art". If someone says it's art, it's art.
Of course I do. Every right, particularly when you are attempting to claim that political, linguist, and social interaction is art. That's pure bullshit.